Anthony Trollope: The Critical Heritage

591 Pages·1996·9.246 MB·English

by  Donald Smalley (editor)

ANTHONY TROLLOPE: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE
THE CRITICAL HERITAGE SERIES
General Editor: B. C. Southam
The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of
criticism on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the
contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student
to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer's work and
its place within a literary tradition.
The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the
history of criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and little
published documentary material, such as letters and diaries.
Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included in
order to demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the
writer's death.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
THE CRITICAL HERITAGE
Edited by
DONALD SMALLEY
London and New York
First Published in 1969
Reprinted by Routledge
in 1995, 1999
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Transferred to Digital Printing 2007
Compilation, introduction, notes and index © 1969 Donald Smalley
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced
or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means,
now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording,
or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in
writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
ISBN 0-415-13460-9 (hbk)
ISBN 0--415-13455-2 (set)
Publisher's Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the
quality ofthis reprint but points out that some
imperfections in the original may be apparent
General Editor's Preface
The reception given to a writer by his contemporaries and near
contemporaries is evidence of considerable value to the student of
literature. On one side we learn a great deal about the state of criticism
at large and in particular about the development of critical attitudes
towards a single writer; at the same time, through private comments
in letters, journals or marginalia, we gain an insight upon the tastes and
literary thought of individual readers of the period. Evidence of this
kind helps us to understand the writer's historical situation, the nature
of his immediate reading-public, and his response to these pressures.
The separate volumes in the Critical Heritage Series present a record
of this early criticism. Clearly for many of the highly-productive and
lengthily-reviewed nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, there
exists an enormous body of material; and in these cases the volume
editors have made a selection of the most important views, significant
for their intrinsic critical worth or for their representative quality
perhaps even registering incomprehension!
For earlier writers, notably pre-eighteenth century, the materials are
much scarcer and the historical period has been extended, sometimes
far beyond the writer's lifetime, in order to show the inception and
growth of critical views which were initially slow to appear.
In each volume the documents are headed by an Introduction, dis
cussing the material assembled and relating the early stages of the
author's reception to what we have come to identify as the critical
tradition. The volumes will make available much material which would
otherwise be difficult of access and it is hoped that the modern reader
will be thereby helped towards an informed understanding of the ways
in which literature has been read and judged.
B.C.S.
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Note on the Text
The materials printed in this volume follow the original texts in all
important respects. Lengthy extracts from the novels of Anthony
Trollope have been omitted whenever they are quoted merely to illus
trate the work in question. These omissions have been indicated in the
text. Typographical errors in the originals have been silently corrected,
but contemporary spelling and the original forms of titles have been
allowed to stand.
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Contents
PREFACE page xvii
INTRODUCTION 1
The Warden (1855)
1 Unsigned notice, Examiner, 1855 30
22 Unsigned notice, Spectator, 1855 32
33 Unsigned notice, Athenaeum, 1855 34
4 Unsigned notice, Leader, 1855 36
4
55 Unsigned notice, Eclectic Review, 1855 39
Barchester Towers (1857)
6 Unsigned notice, Examiner, 1857 41
7 Unsigned review, Spectator, 1857 42
8 Unsigned review, Leader, 1857 43
9 Unsigned notice, Athenaeum, 1857 45
10 Unsigned notice, Saturday Review, 1857 47
II Unsigned notice, Eclectic Review, 1857 49
12 Unsigned notice, The Times, 1857 50
13 Unsigned notice, Westminster Review, 1857 53
The Three Clerks (1858, pub. 1857)
14 Unsigned notice, Saturday Review, 1857 55
15 Unsigned review, Spectator, 1857 59
16 Unsigned review, Examiner, 1857 61
17 Unsigned review, Leader, 1857 62
18 Unsigned review, Athenaeum, 1857 63
19 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, letter, c. 1859 64
20 THACKERAY, letter, 1859 65
21 Unsigned notice, American Theological Review, 1860 66
Doctor Thorne (1858)
22 Unsigned notice, Examiner, 1858 68
23 Unsigned review, Leader, 1858 69
24 Unsigned review, Athenaeum, 1858 71
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CONTENTS
25 Unsigned review, Spectator, 1858 page 73
26 Unsigned notice, Saturday Review, 1858 75
27 Unsigned review, Harper's Magazine, 1858 79
28 'Mr. Trollope's Novels', National Review, 1858 80
The Bertrams (1859)
29 Unsigned notice, Spectator, 1859 90
30 Unsigned notice, Athenaeum, 1859 92
31 Unsigned review, Illustrated London News, 1859 93
32 Unsigned notice, Saturday Review, 1859 96
33 Unsigned review, Examiner, 1859 98
34 Unsigned notice, Leader, 1859 99
35 Unsigned notice, Bentley's Quarterly Review, 1859 100
36 Unsigned notice, National Review, 1859 101
37 Unsigned review, New Monthly Magazine, 1859 102
38 E. S. DALLAS, The Times, 1859 103
39 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, letter, 1860 IIO
Castle Richmond (1860)
40 Unsigned review, Athenaeum, 1860 III
41 Unsigned notice, Saturday Review, 1860 II3
42 Unsigned review, Spectator, 1860 115
Framley Parsonage (1861)
43 Unsigned review, Examiner, 1861 118
44 Unsigned notice, Saturday Review, 1861 121
45 Unsigned notice, London Review, 1861 126
46 Unsigned notice, Eclectic Review, 1861 128
47 'J.A.', Sharpe's London Magazine, 1861 129
48 Unsigned notice, Westminster Review, 1861 133
49 Unsigned notice, American Theological Review, 1861 135
50 Unsigned notice, Dublin University Magazine, 1862 136
The Struggles oJBrown,Jones, and Robinson (1862,1870)
51 Unsigned notice, ·Westminster Review, 1871 138
52 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING on Framley Par-
sonage and Orley Farm
(a) To Miss Isa Blagden, April 1860 140
(b) To Miss Isa Blagden, March/April 1860 140
53 Trollope on his crowding the market, 1862-5 141
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CONTENTS
Orley Farm (1862)
54 Unsigned notice, Saturday Review, 1862 page 143
55 Unsigned review, Spectator, 1862 146
56 Unsigned notice, London Review, 1862 152
57 Unsigned notice, Examiner, 1862 154
58 'Mr. Trollope and the Lawyers', London Review, 1862 156
59 Unsigned notice, Cornhill Magazine, 1862 157
60 E. S. Dallas, The Times, 1862 160
61 Unsigned notice, National Magazine, 1863 164
62 Unsigned notice, Dublin University Magazine, 1863 165
63 Trollope as the Voice of the English Middle Class,
National Review, 1863 166
Rachel Ray (1863)
64 Unsigned review, Athenaeum, 1863 180
65 Unsigned review, Reader, 1863 182
66 Unsigned notice, Saturday Review, 1863 184
67 Unsigned notice, London Review, 1863 188
68 Unsigned notice, The Times, 1863 190
69 Unsigned notice, Westminster Review, 1864 192
The Small House at Allington (1864)
70 Unsigned review, Athenaeum, 1864 194
71 Unsigned notice, Reader, 1864 196
72 Unsigne~ review, Spectator, 1864 197
73 Unsigned notice, Illustrated Londotl News, 1864 202
74 Unsigned notice, London Review, 1864 203
75 Unsigned notice, Saturday Review, 1864 205
76 Unsigned notice, North American Review, 1864 211
77 Unsigned notice, Westminster Review, 1864 212
78 Trollope the man of business, North British Review,
1864 213
Miss Mackenzie (1865)
79 Unsigned notice, Saturday Review, 1865 215
80 Unsigned review, Spectator, 1865 222
81 Unsigned notice, Athenaeum, 1865 227
82 Unsigned notice, London Review, 1865 228
83 Unsigned notice, Reader, 1865 229
84 Unsigned notice, Dublin University Magazine, 1865 2~0
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